by Roman aka jar

Hello Jungle,

today it is time for another private coaching review. This time Roman got visited by a group of students with a really interesting topic. Alex, Paul and Marcus asked me to teach them how to become more creative while going through a project. Not only in terms of ideas, also in the way how you can approach your figure, technically and conceptually.

Well, several new things for me:

- Teaching a small group of students in the same topic. Preparing myself for it is different if it is a one on one coaching session.

- The topic: Creativity. Wikipedia says: "Creativity is a phenomenon whereby something new and somehow valuable is formed. The created item may be intangible (such as an idea, a scientific theory, a musical composition, or a joke) or a physical object (such as an invention, a literary work, or a painting)."

I'd say in miniature painting creativity is something we all already got. Everyone who is painting a figure has it. Some do not know how to set it aflame and do not trust in their ideas. This new topic to teach really killed some brain cells on my side on how to literally teach it to others, but I made a plan ...

While at a friends place I made a sketch on this bust by Pegaso Models.

Using my fingers and some primary acrylics. It was amazing how many steps of my vision are already included in this concept. I now have to break them down to make it easier to follow.

The bust shows Jacques de Molay, last grandmaster of the order of the Templars, who got burned alive in Paris. If you want to know more about Jacques de Molay, check Wikipedia on this topic.

Well, I had a plan now. Still unsure if everything will work out, like I wanted, excited to see my students arrive to my teaching plan. My plan also was to stay creative as a teacher in case something goes wrong. Creating a teaching concept that works for students is the hardest part in teaching.

"When we headed to Augsburg we had no clue what the next two days of painting madness would bring.

As I don’t want to spoil the experience for anybody who is willing to do this creative quest I give just some outlines:

The welcome was warm and friendly

Roman managed to force us out of our comfort zone several times and
magically pulled us back into the known territory of miniature painting

It was far from what I expected, but definitely one of the best learning experiences I had in regard of miniature painting.

You can paint things by burning other stuff! Oh Yeah.

The beer in Augsburg was excellent.

Summarizing the whole experience I must say I would definitely do
it all over again as it changed my approach to miniature painting from a
quite technical point to a more creative approach, which is way more
fun and rewarding.

Overall: The most fun you can have with your pants on."

- Alex

My students homework was to arrive prepared and to know the story and life of Jacques de Molay. With coffee in hand we talked about it and then I killed it all, by tasking them with finding a new topic and story for the model. Let's get creative :)

All our four plans had to be discussed and creative juices were flowing.
Followed
by painting sessions where we switched the models during different
stages we all learned a lot. After explanations from my side, we started
with some finger painting sessions - then switched the four models for
the next session - and continued to work on it further by just using a
sponge and paint.

Basic sketches, done by our fingers and sponges.
Jaques de Molay as a Templar.

Gulliver's travels ...

The captain during the ship's mutiny

The priest, caught by a not so friendly tribe on an island

We continued on and on with still switching the model from one person to the other for several steps and we all had to think double time to achieve the result of this stage that would fit in the individual idea and vision and technical approach.

We continued painting on day two, too.
Pushing further and further. As a teacher I really enjoyed the progress my students made in the end. If you look at this you might now think it was started with just color on their fingers.

"Hey happy painters!After some weeks of hard work I have time to give you some review of my private coaching with Roman Lappat. Everything starts with an idea.... Two very close painting friends and I were thinking about how to improve our art aspect of hobby "miniature painting".We had a great technical workshop with Kirill Kanaev recently in Vienna and now the next step had to be Roman @ the massive voodoo home base.So we talked with Roman about a (how we call it now) master class in creativity.The only things we knew befor the workshop was the date, time and
the Pegaso bust we will paint. Risky business not to know what's
planned, but we took our car and drove about six hours to Augsburg.1. day, Roman welcomes us like we are very good friends, it was a
pleasure to meet him in the studio. After a little welcome small talk
and coffee we still don't know what come next.We get a white
board and markers to write on it. So we start thinking about the topic,
What is creativity? What is it for us and in general...Next step: take the historical concept of the bust and kick all that ideas away :D first time we are out of our comfort zone....We make our own concept at a bust which has a historical background.After rebuild the bust and prepare it for painting Roman: we don't use
our brush the next hours. So we only have fingers and a Little sponge.
Next time he kicked us hard out of our comfort zone. After we
sketches our busts, he kicked us out again.... now we shuffle all busts
and paint on another bust. We did that and tell us our ideas of the
bust.It worked perfectly and the bust start to look very .... creative ;)After sketching the busts we are allowed to work on with our brushes and are shocked how well this concept work.So what he did to us is, he kicked our heads out of a very classic method of painting and showed us a way of getting FREE.Free in painting techniques, free in thinking about concepts and also have fun with difficult projects.To short that article down, the busts look amazing and never expected that.So Roman is a perfect teacher in workshops and also a perfect private coach.Inspiring person...So for everyone who's able to have one of this private coachings, you get an amazing time.Thank you to my friends to be part of this trip. "

- Marcus

I really want to thank the three of you for your kind words on this coaching, also for taking the time to write them down and the great time we shared together! Really appreciated.

Keep on happy painting and stay creative ;)

Roman

Feel free to contact me for your private coaching!
Right now I am fully booked with two day MV private coachings until
the end of September 2017. All requests from now on will be planned up
for autumn 2017. Right now I can not give you any specific dates yet, as
I the second half of 2017 will be planned around weekend seminars and
these will be settled in June/July.

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Review: Private Coaching with Marcus, Paul and Alex

At least for me as (just) a reader, this review was very inspiring. It seems that teaching creavitiy needs a creative coaching concept!Roman: Congrats to this truely genius teaching method ;)Students: Congrats to the excellent results.

All in all, I can simply leave a "wow" here. Really cool stuff is coming out of the jungle...

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